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Duration of Book Writing Required Number of Equivalent Teaching
Months Pages Load, Hours
1 40 3
2 80 6
3 120 9
4 – 5 160 – 180 12

4. A faculty writer shall be required to finish two pages per working day. The
output shall be formatted as follows:

Paper Size 8.5” x 11’
Font Type Times New Roman, double-spaced
Font size 12 characters per inch
Margins Left – 1.5”
Right – 1”
Top – 1”
Bottom – 1”

5. The book is to be written in school during workdays. Writing during weekends,
holidays, and semestral breaks shall be the faculty writer’s option but shall not
be encouraged by the Board. Doing such, though, shall considerably lighten a
faculty writer’s workload during the regular semester.

6. Out-of-town trips, if required, shall follow the usual protocol for requesting
official trips. Per diems shall be taken from the faculty writer’s Unit/College.

7. Expenses for photos, if needed, may be subsidized by the University, but the
cost shall be recovered from the sale of the book once it is published.

8. The faculty writer shall be held responsible for making sure that he/she does
not violate laws pertaining to the intellectual property rights. Such responsibility
includes requesting for permission to produce tables, graphs, and the like. He
/she shall make sure that the original author is acknowledged in the book.

9. A finished draft shall not guarantee publication, especially if submitted to
commercial publishers. The draft shall have to pass the criteria set by the
Board.

10. A pre-edited hardcopy of the chapters/book written shall be submitted to the
Board at the end of each month during book writing has been assigned.
Computer files of the materials shall also be submitted in a 3 ½” diskette or
rewritable compact disc.
11. The book shall be written using MS Word, with pictures in JPEG format inserted
where these are needed.

12. The Board shall certify the extent of accomplishment of the writer, which shall
be attached/supported to the Faculty Workload Form.

13. The Chairman of the Board shall evaluate the faculty writer’s output every
semester covered by the contract. The faculty writer’s rating for book writing
shall be equivalent to 30 percent of his final performance rating.